A Sunday afternoon: imagined
Sunday afternoon gatherings of extended family — and a friend or two who might need a family — had no firm starting time. Factors included the length of the sermon …
Why are professing Christians drawn to ideologies that contrast with Jesus’ teachings?
Hard yet important questions of faith don’t often surface where they should. In fact, church buildings often provide the safest rooms for elephants to gather incognito. Ignoring such questions, however, …
What if Jesus came to live — and so did we?
A major distraction from following Jesus — the primary calling of the Christian faith, supposedly — is how and how much attention is given to Jesus’ death — with an …
When the pathway stops glowing
In the golden days of hymns we sang, “We will follow the steps of Jesus where’er they go.” Then in the early days of choruses we sang, “I have decided …
Getting rescued from Mount Stupid
Holding firmly to one’s beliefs was among the earliest edicts in the faith tradition that nurtured me. That was bad advice. It was built on the false notion that we …
Fixing the fix
To a large degree, professing Christians in America got in on the fix by rearranging the essentials of the faith to which Jesus calls those who seek to live in …
“Wait, I thought he was on our team”
My default is set on avoiding sports illustrations because men tend to use too many of them — and not often well. But throughout the season I have been contemplating …
Support determines scale
Thanksgiving is a good time to reflect on the first year of the Jesus Worldview Initiative as part of the Rev. Charlie Curb Center for Faith Leadership at Belmont University. …